The Better Than Cash Alliance is a partnership of governments, companies, and international organizations that accelerates the transition from cash to digital payments in order to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
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The GSMA shares the latest mobile money data and insights, including that 1.35 billion registered accounts are processing $1 trillion in transactions annually.
The Mobile Gender Gap Report 2021 highlights how the mobile gender gap continues to improve in South Asia, but less so in other regions.
This article outlines ways governments can step in to ensure mobile services help the world’s most vulnerable communities fight the pandemic and access essential support.
This guidance note outlines the most significant challenges that MNOs face (or likely to face) in the context of supporting the delivery of humanitarian assistance in a COVID-19 world and offers relevant recommendations to governments on how to help address or mitigate these challenges.
This research offers evidence to help MNOs make informed decisions about engaging in partnerships with humanitarian organisations, and to help humanitarian actors better understand their MNO partners and build successful long-term partnerships.
Over the past five years, mobile money has gained traction in South Asia, which is experiencing an average annual growth rate of 46 percent in mobile money accounts—the highest across all regions. For more details check out IMF’s 2019 Financial Access Survey that was released last week
Technology is shaking up the banking industry and The Economist is taking notice. This week's cover story discusses the potential risks and benefits of the “smartphone revolution in finance”…
This report offers guidance for humanitarian practitioners considering mobile money enabled cash and voucher assistance (CVA) programmes
Section 1 of this handbook provides essential background on the humanitarian sector and cash and voucher assistance (CVA) programmes. Section 2 outlines the operational steps involved in delivering CVA
In this report, Mastercard combines insights from industry players and shares 5 ‘markers’ to help with strategies to promote adoption of formal financial services.
Water providers are shifting to digital payments to reduce expenses and streamline delivery. In this report, CGAP and GSMA share lessons learned from 25 organizations, including the challeng…
This report reveals how the mobile gender gap is changing in low- and middle-income countries, as well as ranking the factors preventing equal mobile ownership and mobile internet use for me…
The paper examines the effects of mobile money as financial technology and service innovation on consumer demand, connecting the effects to the fast evolving mobile technologies (from 1G to 4G).
Digital Financial Services (DFS) is a relatively new, low-cost means of digital access to transactional financial services. Often termed ‘mobile money’ or ‘mobile financial services,’ DFS is…
In December 2017, there were over 2.9 million active agents and 690 million registered customer accounts worldwide. Primarily responsible for registering customer accounts, mobile money agen…
The mobile money industry is now processing a billion dollars a day and generating direct revenues of over $2.4 billion. With 690 million registered accounts worldwide, mobile money has evol…
To effectively use of mobile technologies, this study develops a multifaceted framework to analyze critical success factors and determine an optimal solution for mobile technology adoption in travel agencies.
Based on a sample of 62 developing countries, the paper provides empirical analysis showing increase in the use of FinTech has a positive effect on the level of financial inclusion, which in turn advance sustainable economic development.
Everything from the range of goods and services we buy to how we buy them has drastically shifted toward digital, bringing significant benefits to consumers, businesses and economies. As the…
This playbook discusses the various potential Value Added Services that could increase uptake of mobile retail payments in Tanzania and similar emerging markets.